The name of the American corporate game is consolidation. Each retail behemoth was an erstwhile tiny regional player which later made it big.

If the American centre really wanted to walk into a dinghy ill lit mom n pop store they would have done so.

We're asked to lament the death of local flavour. Local flavour defined by hard of hearing grandpas ( Read more... )

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/22/movies/23cnd-ledger.html?hp

I remember him in 'A Knight's Tale' and in Brokeback Mountain. I liked him in both films. His death is personal to me. I want to go and pay my respects. I hope I am able to.

Death is never pretty.

I will miss you in the movies.

RIP, brother.